lwrver wrote:Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 6 in my LM9 it occasionally will not terminate firefox-bin when I exit the program. The next time I try to start firefox it gives an error message that says "firefox-bin is still running" and will not allow firefox to start until I manually kill the process. Why is this happening? Any ideas?

Now running version 7.0.1 and still no fix for this problem. I'm able to get around it by opening "System Monitor" and ending the process. I had to place an icon on the panel for quick access to system monitor. It's rather annoying though for a mature program like Firefox, and what is this Firefox "zombie" process I keep seeing?

Update 11/23/2011: Don't know if it is a coincidence, but I upgraded to Firefox 9 yesterday, and haven't seen this anomaly since. Maybe they finally found and fixed that memory leak. All is well for now.

Last edited by lwrver on Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, there is often/sometimes regularly this kind of thing version after version after version... Sometimes you have just to wait for few seconds and other times you must kill the process. Well, it's Firefox...

K.I.S.S. ===> "Keep It Simple, Stupid""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)

I have this same problem - "firefox-bin is still running" - and I am using LinuxMint9 64bit LTS Gnome on all my work machines. Firefox on this version is from the repo and is only ver 3.6.23. so I don't know if it is Firefox or some updated codec etc that is causing the error.

I notice this problem appearing mostly after watching a video online (YouTube etc) - the kill process solution works OK.

Edit: It launches after I installed ia32-libs-gtk. But none of the plugins work, and there are a ton of 'Wrong ELF class' warnings when I start up Aurora from the console. Perhaps I need to get a 64-bit version from somewhere...

Hi!What I did day before even though many people don't advise was to download the Aurora tar from Mozilla (not from any ppa) and extract it to a folder in my home directory and allowed for automatically check for updates and to prompt me when an update is available. Yesterday, it updated and that was just ~830 kb. I will post today's update size later. Sometimes, there is a re-spin in which case there will be a "full" update, ~ 17MB in case of Aurora. I now use Aurora all the time but it uses the profile it finds in .mozilla from my regular Firefox install.

Today's update was 854 kB. It does appear to me that getting the Aurora direct from Mozilla as opposed to getting it from a ppa will allow for daily delta updates on most days. I'm not seeing any serious disadvantage in this approach.

aes2011 wrote:What I did day before even though many people don't advise was to download the Aurora tar from Mozilla (not from any ppa) and extract it to a folder in my home directory and allowed for automatically check for updates and to prompt me when an update is available. Yesterday, it updated and that was just ~830 kb. I will post today's update size later. Sometimes, there is a re-spin in which case there will be a "full" update, ~ 17MB in case of Aurora. I now use Aurora all the time but it uses the profile it finds in .mozilla from my regular Firefox install.

Yes, this is exactly what I said in this topic and in others. A quite simple, easy way and you have always the last version. About the size, there are often some small upgrades, some Kb or 1 or 2 Mb, and sometimes there is a complete update but this one is just about 16 or 17 Mb, not more.

aes2011 wrote:Today's update was 854 kB. It does appear to me that getting the Aurora direct from Mozilla as opposed to getting it from a ppa will allow for daily delta updates on most days. I'm not seeing any serious disadvantage in this approach.

There is no disadvantage at all. And it's cleaner also rather adding repos again and again. Keep simple, clean, original or/and untouched (or almost), sources is often the best way for your system... Add a PPA is another way for Firefox some people can prefer but for me it's totally useless.

K.I.S.S. ===> "Keep It Simple, Stupid""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)

but all I get are these errors. I'm wondering if I need to just remove Firefox and then re-install it without the addition to my sources.list? Anyone got a better idea?NOTE: I've installed Iceweasel as a web browser, just in case I do need to remove FireFox, and a re-install doesn't work

Linux Mint 12 is stuck with Firefox 8.The current (stable) version is Firefox 9.

Using the "firefox-stable" PPA will result in a "404: File Not Found" error.Using the "firefox-next" PPA will install Firefox 10, NOT Firefox 9.Using the "Aurora" PPA will end up with Firefox 11?

So, how in the world can I get Firefox 9 at all??

p/s. Using the zipped file downloaded directly from mozilla.com and running it from /opt can work, BUT I will lose all Mint-specific tools, such as the list of Applications available on my system to deal with downloaded files. (Preferences/Applications) eg. PDF Reader is NOT available at all when running a stock Mozilla Firefox. So, this is NOT the ideal solution.